Famous Virtue Quotes Part – 14

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Silence is the virtue of fools.- Francis Bacon

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Silk comes out of the worm Gold out of the rocks, The lotus from filth, Fire from a piece of wood And the gem from the hood of cobra So too, virtue can come out of the people humbly born.

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Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

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Sin is committable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.- Martin H. Fischer

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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Sincerely to aspire after virtue is to gain her, and zealously to labor after her wages is to receive them.

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Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

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Some of ’em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

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Some virtue is needed, but not too much. Excess in anything is a defect. [Fr., Faut d’la vertu, pas trop n’en faut, L’exces en tout est un defaut.]

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

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Some, by admiring other men’s virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!

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‘T is virtue which they want; and, wanting it, honor no garment to their backs can fit.

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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess.

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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.


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